Massachusetts Registry News

Being convicted of a variety of property crimes will result in an automatic suspension of your driver’s license. For example, stealing or vandalizing a car will trigger a 1 year revocation for a first offense and a 5 year revocation for a 2nd offense.  Filing a false stolen car insurance claim and receiving a stolen […]

The Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles uses “complaint regulatory” suspensions to insure a driver’s attendance at a hearing before a RMV hearings officer. If the driver who has received a letter from the Registry regarding a “complaint regulatory” suspension fails to appear at the hearing, the Registrar will automatically and indefinitely revoke the driver’s license

For those who are arrested for DUI in Massachusetts, refusing the breathalyzer can have severe consequences, ranging from a 6 month suspension for first offenders over 21 years of age, up to a lifetime revocation for those with 3 prior DUI convictions, no matter where or when the convictions occurred. Under the Massachusetts breathalyzer refusal

Thousands of people are arrested for operating after suspension of their driver’s licenses in Massachusetts. A ruling released yesterday by the highest court in the Massachusetts will make driving on a suspended license much more difficult for prosecutors to prove. To convict someone of driving after suspension or revocation of their driver’s license, the prosecution

Minor inspection and equipment violations can have major surprise consequences for Massachusetts license holders. The Registry of Motor Vehicles will impose a 60 day suspension whenever a driver has accumulated any combination of at fault accidents and motor vehicle violations over any rolling 3 year period. Until they receive the suspension letter in the mail,

Driving on a suspended license can sometimes result in minimum mandatory jail time and a new 4 year habitual traffic offender revocation. Therefore, fewer people charged with this crime plead guilty and more operating after suspension cases go to trial. In order to obtain a conviction for driving while suspended, the prosecution must prove, beyond

Reporting for the Boston Herald, O’Ryan Johnson recently wrote about a Registry employee who was terminated yesterday for posting disparaging and inappropriate “tweets” about his co-workers, supervisors, and the members of the public who pay his salary. The Registry took swift and decisive action against the employee, once the violations were brought to the Registrar’s

Mass RMV. Inspectors along with Brockton, Massachusetts Police Officers recently conducted surprise school bus inspections. Writing for The Enterprise, Reporter Matt Stout reported that inspectors cited bus drivers for driving without the required § 7D licenses as well as other violations such as non-inspection, tire tread depth violations, overloading their vehicles, and not having a

Lawyers can sometimes use the necessity defense to get not guilty verdicts for their clients in operating after suspension cases.  The necessity defense can be claimed in cases where someone whose license is suspended has an extremely compelling need to drive, such that driving on a suspended license is the lesser of the harms. For